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You know, I love that Forever and Ever, Amen song by Randy Travis.

Someone needs to design a button or something that says "Fuck you, JUDE"

Oh, I like the highly messed up freaks idea. Oh, and whoever puts this stuff on zazzle, make sure there are kids sizes available too.

It's good to see that existing home sales and new construction are rising, but the values are still so low. I don't see my area picking up any time soon though. The unemployment rate for the county I live in is 15.1% right now so not a lot of jobs to bring new people to the area.

Schoker isn't defined in the Urban Dictonary yet. What could the definition be? Schoker - A lame attempt at political propaganda on an internet message board.

He has pigs in his backyard? Oh, and I voted.

Maybe if you substitute Animal Collective for Vampire Weekend it will make more sense.

That guy is a bagger at Busch's in Ann Arbor. (Local grocery chain) Obama should take the challenge. I'd pay to see that.

There's nothing worse than being at a festival type show and a great band is playing before some shitty headliner. When we saw Sloan and Doves, it was at some music festival in the Detroit area. 89x fest or something. Anyways, Dashboard Confessional were up next and all any of the emo losers in the crowd did was to boo at Sloan and Doves and say how much they sucked.

I want to stab things (or at least Missy Elliott) when I hear "Get Ur Freak On"

Finally!! Today is also my 2 year old daughter's birthday!!

The Long Winters were the openers when we went to see The Pernice Bros. and neither Jay nor I had heard of them before. We were totally blown away. They were one of the best bands I've ever seen live.

Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips The Luckiest by Ben Folds It's very hard for me to listen to either without tearing up.

Ok, that makes sense.

I don't get the whole tax thing. Won't they just get that extra money that they were taxed for the bonus back in their tax refund?

My 3 year old (just turned 3 a month ago) can beat the Indiana Jones game. He only needs help with the parts where you have the blue book and you have to do the squares in a certain order. Other than that, he can load it up, pick his levels, and save without any help from me. Oh, and he can switch what hand he holds the controller/nunchuck with and it doesn't slow him down at all. He can also lay on the couch with one hand behind his head and still play. Usually he just stands in front of the tv and jumps up and down the whole time he plays. I was quite blown away by how good a 2 year o

The Lego games are fun (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Batman) and my 3 year old and 7 year old boys love to play them. I don't know how much they would appeal to a 7 year old girl, but I'm a 34 year old girl and I like to play them.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak was the most depressing book I've read recently. The Time Traveller's Wife is up there on the list too. eta: Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Actually Lord of the Flies was just disturbing. I wanted to drink myself out of my misery after that one.

I've come to expect that with Thomas Hardy. I read Tess of the D'Ubervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge and both left me with a bummed out feeling when I was done reading them. Actually, most of the books I've read so far this year have been depressing. WTF?

Book number 25 for the year is Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy:

My dad always had a theory that they were built by humans but that at that time, the gravity on the Earth was different so it was easy to build things like that. Or something.

No, that was Stonehenge and those monolith things on Easter Island.

Ann Arbor is where it's at. I did live in Detroit when I was a kid.

Ok, JUDE, now you're just trying to enjoy Wilco on MY terms. I thought this thread was about ction.

If you still want the house, counter and ask them to fix the problem. In this market, they may be willing to do it so they can sell. I had a house for sale a few years ago and I paid to have some sort of filter installed on the well because the buyers asked me to. I just wanted to get rid of the house and figured a couple grand was a small price to pay to have it out from under me.